Barbra Streisand, Barclays Centre, Brooklyn

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Barbra Steisand proved in her Brooklyn "homecoming" concert that she remains hungry for adulation and to performLucas Jackson/Reuters

Tim Teeman

Last updated at 10:05AM, October 12 2012

The pictures that flickered on the sheet shrouding the stage of Brooklyn’s
Barclays Centre were black and white and of Barbra Streisand when young and
the neighbourhood she grew up in. When the sheet fluttered away revealing
Streisand in a black, glittering Donna Karan jacket and skirt, the
70-year-old singer said: “Hello Brooklyn” and waxed lyrical about the
streets she had known before singing You’ll Never Know, the
first song she recorded aged 13.

Naturally the crowd — Brooklyn and not — roared its devotion. This wasn’t just
a much-hyped “homecoming” concert for Streisand (and her first tour in six
years after